[TML] "Dies the Fire"

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 6 Dec 2007 at 15:13, royce at efn.org wrote:

>    I, too, have read "Dies the Fire", and am presently halfway through "A
> Meeting in Corvallis".  Having grown up in Corvallis, and now living in
> nearby Eugene, how could I resist?  :-)
>    ObTrav:  A Red Zone world where the author's near magical restriction
> pervades.  But the planet has a working elevator to orbit (powered from
> above the field's boundary), so the PC's can visit.  (Yah, this is a
> real stretch for a token ObTrav.  Someone please one-up me with a more
> interesting notion.)

The players ship misjumps. It winds up at this world. From a warning 
bouy or something they learn that approaching closer than XX to the 
planet will subject them to the effects. 

Alas, they have damage to the ship such that they were able to 
establish a safe orbit but can't leave. 

There are weird things at one point (Nantucket, according to the 
chapters of the 4th book that are online). Maybe something makes them 
think that they can get help there.

In any case, they have to abandon the ship in personal re-entry packs 
(the only tech I can think of that'd get them down intact under the 
circumstances).

They won't come down anywhere near the anomaly. So they'll get to 
work their way across the world to get there and hope they can get 
help.

Alternatively, the Alien Space Bats left the starport alone. The 
effects only exist outside the extrality line. Which makes for a 
really different setup.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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